Some of these Ivy League kids want to have it both ways. They want to be baby members of the 1 percent, which they most certainly are, and yet still portray themselves as the oppressed.

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It’s the other way around. They never vote for us.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

I could become very rich in Guatemala but by the low method of ratifying my title, opening a clinic, and specialising in allergies. To do that would be the most horrible betrayal of the two ‚I’s‘ struggling inside me: the socialist and the traveller.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

I’m interested in movement, and I’m interested in money, and I’m interested in the movement of money.

Riches don’t make a man rich, they only make him busier.

Many people seem to have this double moral. They say one thing and then do another thing. They say that the climate crisis is very important and yet they do nothing about it.

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.

Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true.

I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like – when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn’t look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that’s terrorism, too.

My family wasn’t rich, so when it comes to money, I tend to think, ‚Err on the side of caution.‘

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many.

White people just don’t want their slaves to be free. That’s the whole thing.

There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.

Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won’t make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa – and it’s about getting a balance.

I definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

Trouble brews when we steal from the poor and give to the rich.

I believe with all my heart that America remains ‚the great idea‘ that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.

Part of the core information that I’ve been purveying is that identity politics is a sick game. You don’t play racial, ethnic, and gender identity games. The Left plays them on behalf of the oppressed, let’s say, and the Right tends to play them on behalf of nationalism and ethnic pride. I think they’re equally dangerous.

Europe became rich because it exploited Africa; and the Africans know that.

Think and grow rich.

There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.

I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin‘ wealthy.

If you’re totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

Racism is real in this country.

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

George Bush doesn’t care about black people.

Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.

Those who invest in South Africa should not think they are doing us a favor; they are here for what they get out of our cheap and abundant labor, and they should know that they are buttressing one of the most vicious systems.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one’s own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.